Hybrid/Remote NGFW Job Trends

Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring NGFW skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 409 423
Rank change year-on-year +39 +14 +232
Permanent jobs citing NGFW 4 31 63
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.027% 0.19% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.29% 1.43% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2 13 53
10th Percentile £60,550 £28,959 £48,717
25th Percentile £65,875 £34,404 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £48,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% -36.00% +57.07%
75th Percentile £87,375 £57,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £93,450 £62,500 -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £50,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +70.00% -31.03% +61.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

NGFW falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,381 2,171 2,940
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.19% 13.27% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 872 1,216 2,494
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,625 £86,250 £84,056
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.68% +9.50% -4.76%

NGFW
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing NGFW and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

NGFW job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

NGFW
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NGFW.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NGFW

NGFW
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing NGFW over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

NGFW salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

NGFW
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) MPLS
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) BIG-IP
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (25.00%) ICMP
4 1 (25.00%) IPsec
4 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Engineering Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineering Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Network Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) WAN Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (50.00%) Line Management
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Availability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Presales
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) VMware